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SENATOR MARKEY HOSTS DISCUSSION WITH FORMER EPA OFFICIALS WHO DECRY ATTACKS ON SCIENCE, SYSTEMIC DEFUNDING, WILLFUL NEGLECT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AT EPA UNDER SCOTT PRUITT

Posted on Jan 25, 2018 |

From: Office of Senator Ed Markey

“Led by Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, chairman of the Senate Climate Action Task Force, the panel questioned three former EPA employees about what the lawmakers see as willful neglect, staff intimidation and a lack of regulatory enforcement under President Trump's EPA....Testifying yesterday were Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility; Mustafa Santiago Ali, former EPA assistant associate administrator for environmental justice; and Mike Walker, former director of EPA's National Enforcement Training Institute."